The Cyber and Analytics Unit (CAU) within FINRA’s National Cause and Financial Crimes Detection (NCFC) program would like to bring an important cyber-related development to your attention. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI issued a “Shields Up” warning this week regarding potential Russian cyberattacks to target U.S. organizations related to
Regulatory Obligations
FINRA Rule 2090 (Know Your Customer) requires member firms and their associated persons to use reasonable diligence to determine the “essential facts” about every customer and “the authority of each person acting on behalf of such customer.” Regulatory Notice 11-02 (SEC Approves Consolidated FINRA Rules Governing Know-Your-Customer and Suitability Obligations) advised that
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In observance of Christmas and New Year’s Day, the FINRA Alternative Display Facility (ADF) system will follow the schedule below:
Thursday, December 24, 2020 Early Close
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FINRA Requests Comments on Proposed New Rules Governing Communications with the Public
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NASD is issuing this Notice to Members to inform members that NASD's Board of Governors has approved proposed changes to NASD's Gross
October 12, 2006
On July 17, 2006, NASDAQ published Head Trader Alert #2006-105 announcing that the SEC had approved NASDAQ's System Integration proposal allowing NASDAQ® to integrate the NASDAQ Market Center®, Brut and INET into a single platform.(http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/TraderNews.aspx?id=hta2006-105). On August 16, 2006, NASDAQ announced in head trader Alert #2006-116 that the single
We are at a cross roads as an economy, thus as a country. Hedge funds and other similar large corporate entities have an unfair advantage in the market, and has acted to the detriment of the health of our economy as a whole. Loose rules related to the reporting of short interest and FTDs(fail to deliver) has created an environment that allows hedge funds and the like to take advantage of retail
(a) Each member shall promptly report to FINRA, but in any event not later than 30 calendar days, after the member knows or should have known of the existence of any of the following:
(1) the member or an associated person of the member:
(A) has been found to have violated any securities-, insurance-, commodities-, financial- or investment-related laws, rules, regulations or standards of conduct
FINRA 21-19 is a long overdue change. It is clear that there is a systematic flaw in the United States market that if continued, will lead to disaster. A large part of this issue is the outdated short interest reporting policy. While many of the policies mentioned in Regulatory Notice 21-19 address the general breadth of exploitable and ineffective reporting, they also leave significant specific
